Example sentences of "[verb] at [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 2 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 3 | The erstwhile bandido wore a bloody nose which he was dabbing at with an oversized tartan handkerchief . |
| 4 | Looked at as a whole , Thailand has done well . |
| 5 | It must be looked at as a grand community of integrated environment . |
| 6 | the constituent members make taxable supplies and would be liable to register if looked at as a whole ; |
| 7 | A capital injection from the company 's bank has to be looked at as a probable source of additional finance , although this would mean a secured loan . |
| 8 | The room is at its best looked at as a whole . |
| 9 | It is submitted that the whole of Skelton Village should be looked at as a unity , that there is extreme environmental value over its north part , and that were the village inset into the greenbelt , the inset boundary should be precisely as shown in the deposit copy of Southern Ryedale 's Local Plan . |
| 10 | Jiu jitsu 's sporting form , that of judo , ‘ the gentle way ’ was looked at as a method for training law enforcement officers in arrest and hold techniques . |
| 11 | Increased earnings through tourism and foreign investment were being looked at as a means to assist the economy . |
| 12 | All aspects of IT ( i.e. teaching and research , library and administrative ) are being looked at as a whole . |
| 13 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 14 | But the important point here I think , is that this is a corporate , or may be a corporate res responsibility , and therefore my understanding is that the officers are going to look at those parts which may be looked at as a corporate responsibility , and I would therefore erm , assume that one would look at all the C A B services in that light . |
| 15 | Can the reports of these commissions and committees be looked at as an aid to construction ? |
| 16 | The emergence of three youngsters from Ibrox , Murray , Hagen and Pressley , could be looked at as an unusual bonus but that initial impression may not necessarily be the correct one . |
| 17 | And because this issue is clearly so site related , it seems to me it can not possibly be looked at at a strategic level . |
| 18 | Mandy 's lawyer Joe Wood said last night : ‘ Papers are presently being looked at with a view to proceedings being taken . ’ |
| 19 | Sir , Arising out of your questionnaire ( Transport September — October 1991 ) it occurred to me that perhaps the CIT logo could be looked at with a view to substituting something more modern or vibrant for the horse/steed . |
| 20 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 21 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 22 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 23 | The ASB proposals seem to imply that card portfolios should not be looked at on a portfolio basis and that the laws of large numbers do not apply . |
| 24 | Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover . |
| 25 | " The conventions of the constitution , " as Professor LeMay observed , " have meaning only when they are looked at against a background of continuous political change . |
| 26 | ‘ Being looked at by a bloke that 's saying nothing . ’ |
| 27 | To insert them , or any other filmed material , required telecine transfer — literally the cine projection of the film onto a small screen being looked at by a television camera . |
| 28 | Looked at from a White House perspective , it is clear that if a president is to be effective in achieving his objectives he needs unity and discipline within the executive branch . |
| 29 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 30 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |